Armed guards protect Norwegian navy privates and scientists from polar bears while they play soccer in the Arctic

Armed guards protected navy privates and scientists
from polar bears while they played a game of soccer on March
22.

You can see an extraordinary photograph of the scene
below.

You don't need much to play soccer - just a couple of
goal-frames, a soccer ball, and a grassy field.

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Sometimes you don't even need a field, as the Reuters photograph below
clearly shows.

In the photo, KV Svalbard's crew - formed of Norwegian Navy
privates and scientists from the Norwegian Institute of Marine
Research - can be seen playing soccer on a big slab of ice in the
Arctic, near Greenland.

The photo, taken on March 22, is all the more extraordinary as
armed guards were deployed on the ice to protect the
soccer-playing scientists from potential polar bear attacks.